Media reports suggest that dissatisfied candidates want names and percentage of marks of the successful candidates to be made public and no alteration should be made in the criteria for the selection.
The Sikkim education department is all set to conduct a meeting in Gangtok today, i.e. January 29 to address the grievances of the dissatisfied candidates seeking admission to Sikkim Government B Ed College at Soreng in West Sikkim. According to the reports, the meeting of high importance will be chaired by GP Upadhyaya, additional chief secretary and head of the education department along with authorities of the BEd college and representatives of the candidates. The concerns of the meeting will include dissatisfaction of a majority of approximately 1,225 candidates who had sought admission to the college and are unhappy at the manner in which 150 applicants were selected.
Media reports suggest that these candidates want names and percentage of marks of the successful candidates to be made public and no alteration should be made in the criteria for the selection. Unlike in the previous years, the government conducted no entrance exam for admission to the college this year due to the ongoing pandemic situation. The government had said that admission would be granted on the basis of the marks secured by the candidates in graduate and postgraduate examinations.
However, the dissatisfied candidates allege many with lesser marks have been selected and an additional quota system introduced to favour people in power. While conducting the admission, a notification released by the authority stated that out of the 150 available seats, 20 would be reserved for serving teachers, 10 for candidates without a certificate of identification (COI), three for differently-abled and the remaining 117 for COI holders.
According to the reports, a spokesman for the candidates said, “They (officials of the education department) are only trying to manipulate us and are buying time. We will not budge from our position. If the matter is not resolved tomorrow (Friday), we might stay put indefinitely at the HRDD office (human resources development department, the venue of the meeting.”
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